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... appeared in a leading periodical , from which the following extract is taken : - " Among the legitimate solaces of the toils of the modern biologist , there should certainly be reckoned the grim delight , which he were less than human ...
... appeared in a leading periodical , from which the following extract is taken : - " Among the legitimate solaces of the toils of the modern biologist , there should certainly be reckoned the grim delight , which he were less than human ...
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... appeared on the platform of the British Associa- tion at Belfast , and if he had then confessed the belief which he has put into the mouth of Bishop Butler , and which has been held by some of our profoundest thinkers - that it is incon ...
... appeared on the platform of the British Associa- tion at Belfast , and if he had then confessed the belief which he has put into the mouth of Bishop Butler , and which has been held by some of our profoundest thinkers - that it is incon ...
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... appeared , and the furor it occasioned , an excitement equal to that caused by Darwin's " Descent of Man . " But it ... appearance . A well - known geologist , speaking of the book to a distinguished astronomer , said , " That's a very ...
... appeared , and the furor it occasioned , an excitement equal to that caused by Darwin's " Descent of Man . " But it ... appearance . A well - known geologist , speaking of the book to a distinguished astronomer , said , " That's a very ...
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... appeared about a month after its delivery . " I have noticed during years of self - observation that it is not in hours of clear- ness and vigour that this doctrine [ material atheism ] commends itself to my mind ; that in the presence ...
... appeared about a month after its delivery . " I have noticed during years of self - observation that it is not in hours of clear- ness and vigour that this doctrine [ material atheism ] commends itself to my mind ; that in the presence ...
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... appearance is not peculiar to insane cases ; the substance of the brain , however , remains intact . Is it not to some kind of morbific force we must look for the cause of a sudden outburst of acute mania , rather than to mere ...
... appearance is not peculiar to insane cases ; the substance of the brain , however , remains intact . Is it not to some kind of morbific force we must look for the cause of a sudden outburst of acute mania , rather than to mere ...
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Página 9 - Is there not a temptation to close to some extent with Lucretius, when he affirms that' Nature is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself, without the meddling of the gods'?
Página 25 - You cannot satisfy the human understanding in its demand for logical continuity between molecular processes and the phenomena of consciousness. This is a rock on which materialism must inevitably split whenever it pretends to be a complete philosophy of life.
Página 39 - organized register of infinitely numerous experiences received during the evolution of life, or rather during the evolution of that series of organisms through which the human organism has been reached.
Página 42 - Can we pause here ? We break a magnet and find two poles in each of its fragments. We continue the process of breaking, but, however small the parts, each carries with it, though enfeebled, the polarity of the whole. And when we can break no longer, we prolong the intellectual vision to the polar molecules. Are we not urged...
Página 25 - ... your dead nitrogen atoms, your dead phosphorus atoms, and all the other atoms, dead as grains of shot, of which the brain is formed. Imagine them separate and sensationless ; observe them running together and forming all imaginable combinations. This, as a purely mechanical process, is seea-ble by the mind. But can you see, or dream, or in any way imagine, how out of that mechanical act, and from these individually dead atoms, sensation, thought, and emotion are to rise...
Página 65 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.